Music Listography 3: Songs to Sing

Previously on Music Listography: I covered cover songs  and my top songs of the 00's today i'm going to do songs i love to sing along to. 


I've always sung. I went to an "interesting" primary school, it was tiny (until grade three there was just one other girl in my year level and we never had any more than 42 kids at the whole school), and the teachers were incredibly diverse in their abilities. My 3/4/5/6 teacher was, amoungst other things, a music lover and on every friday afternoon the whole school would gather in the multipurpose area and sing. Most of the time it was those songs we all learnt, like We Are Australian and Bound for Botany Bay, but we also learnt songs like 'Love is All Around', 'Saltwater' and 'Yesterday.'
In high school i was in the musical, in any incarnation of a choir we had (once performed Waterfalls by TLC at presentation night) and happily found a group of friends who also liked bursting into songs at random points in time. 
It has gotten to the point that i don't know that i'm doing it, that i don't realise that i'm singing to myself. My Lab Partner in 3rd year Zoology used to hate it, (what happened to Jesse i wonder. We did awesome Attenborough imitations together...) and i've had Year 12's mention in thank you cards how they loved it when i sung. Just this morning a Year 8 girl caught me singing along to my headphones as i walked through the school gates. 


I just can't stop, and won't apologise for it. 


So this is my list of songs i sing along to at the moment. I noticed that it's all modern music. That i didn't include any Beatles or anything that i may have sung in my childhood. Because it's not the same. They don't regularly come up on my ipod or i don't seek them out to sing... It just makes me feel a bit weird that i don't ever seem to include any "classics" in my lists... 


Powderfinger - These Days.

I've been singing this since i was in what, Year 10? It doesn't stop being good. i don't care what anyone else thinks

Washington - Sunday Best

The dilemma whenever I make any of these lists is do i put multiple songs by the same artist in them? I don't like doing it, it feels weak, so I had to spend some time whittling down my Washington list of songs, coz while I don't have her amazing voice, I find her songs incredibly singable. Sunday Best wins. It was going to be Cement, which I will say I enjoy more as a song, but find this more singable I guess... Holy Shit you sure can turn it on....

Ben Folds - The Luckiest

No comment needed right? Wish i'd seen him with an Orchestra. 

Always Be - Jimmy Eat World

Birdy - Skinny Love

Yes I know it's a cover version. Yes i heard the Bon Iver version before hers. Yes i like the Bon Iver version too. It'd be in my top three favourite Bon Iver songs. But this is a better singing version. No muttering, i suppose (is that against the Bon Iver rules, to say?)

Elbow - The Bones of You

Bones of You or On A Day Like This? I will not lie and say that i put them on back to back and walked around for a bit singing them both. Bones of you won. (uh duh)

Tim Minchin - Drowned

In another #hatersgonnahate moment, I love Tim Minchin. I love that this isn't a comedy song, but it still makes me smile every time he sings 'Like the overuse of metaphor' though. Try not to want to belt out the bridge though. 






Naturally, this list doesn't include any Disney songs. I felt if i started on them, i wouldn't stop and my whole morning would be consumed with watching You Tube clips of them. But if pushed? I'd say A Whole New World from Aladdin, Now I See The Light from Tangled and Reflection from Mulan would be my top three Disney Sing-a-long songs.


I also didn't list songs from musicals on here, because it's a slippery slope you know... It'd become a whole list of Rent songs with maybe Edelweiss (but the one at the end of the movie where Christopher Plummer breaks your heart) thrown in. Top three Rent songs? I'll Cover You Reprise, Goodbye Love and Finale B (i know right, no Seasons of Love!)




Oh, and as an aside, the songs i like to sing from my favourite bands? Stolen From Dashboard Confessional and For You and Your Denial from Yellowcard (used to be Keeper)